Benchmark is raising $170M for it’s latest partners-only fund
While fund sizes of many venture capital firms have ballooned into billions of dollars over the last decade, Benchmark Partners, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful investors, has stuck to raising approximately $425 million in capital every few years. That’s what the storied firm told in a letter to its limited partners when it announced … Read more
X rolls out its real-time search tool, Radar, to Premium+ subscribers
As competition from newcomers like Bluesky and Threads increases, X on Monday launched a “Radar” trend analysis tool that aims to offer subscribers real-time insights into emerging trends and conversations on the platform. The tool, previously known as Insights, was initially targeted at Verified Organizations (businesses), allowing marketers to track topics and trends on the … Read more
Tesla’s Cybertruck range extender just became an even worse deal
Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Tesla has delayed the release of its range extender for the Cybertruck and downgraded the amount of mileage it will add for the dual-motor version of the truck, as noticed by Electrek. The reduced range and delay are just more ways that the Cybertruck, which saw some … Read more
Bitcoin Price Dips After Failing to Hit $70,000, Leaving Longs Rekt
Bitcoin’s close call with $70,000 may have boosted trader optimism, leaving a trail of liquidations as the price fell below $67,000 Monday.
No, Polymarket Whales Aren’t Evidence of Prediction Market Manipulation
If you think the Trump bulls are wrong, bet against them.
Who Even Uses Linux? – You Do and You Probably Don’t Even Know It
Curious why more people aren’t using Linux if it’s so awesome? This article breaks down what Linux is, why it’s great, and how it secretly powers most of your favorite devices, from smartphones to servers. What even is Linux? Linux is a family of free and open-source operating systems based on the Linux kernel. Although … Read more
‘Content kleptocracy’: News Corp outlets sue Perplexity over scraped stories
News Corp’s Dow Jones and the NY Post have sued growing AI startup Perplexity over what they describe as a “content kleptocracy.” In a lawsuit filed in New York on Monday, the media organization claimed that Perplexity engages in copyright violations on a “grand scale,” simultaneously duplicating and misrepresenting original content created by others: Its … Read more
How To Use Mod_Rewrite To Remove Your (.PHP) Extension From Your Work
Introduction There was a time I wanted to remove my (.PHP) extension from my project URL. It became an extreme challenge for me, and I was bored cause I wished my .php not to show, then I stumbled into modrewrite. Ever since then, I have appreciated modrewrite functionality. I was able to remove my extension … Read more
Mastering Microservices: Building Effective Architecture Governance for Scalability and Stability
A microservices architecture is the gold standard for building scalable web applications. Gartner estimates that 74% of organizations use microservices for their web applications, with another 23% planning to use them soon. If you’re an IT leader, architect, or developer, you might have experienced the faster deployments, better fault isolation, and easier scaling that come … Read more
Deploy a serverless web application to edit images using Amazon Bedrock
Generative AI adoption among various industries is revolutionizing different types of applications, including image editing. Image editing is used in various sectors, such as graphic designing, marketing, and social media. Users rely on specialized tools for editing images. Building a custom solution for this task can be complex. However, by using various AWS services, you … Read more
Brilliant words, brilliant writing: Using AWS AI chips to quickly deploy Meta LLama 3-powered applications
Many organizations are building generative AI applications powered by large language models (LLMs) to boost productivity and build differentiated experiences. These LLMs are large and complex and deploying them requires powerful computing resources and results in high inference costs. For businesses and researchers with limited resources, the high inference costs of generative AI models can … Read more
Best practices for building robust generative AI applications with Amazon Bedrock Agents – Part 2
In Part 1 of this series, we explored best practices for creating accurate and reliable agents using Amazon Bedrock Agents. Amazon Bedrock Agents help you accelerate generative AI application development by orchestrating multistep tasks. Agents use the reasoning capability of foundation models (FMs) to create a plan that decomposes the problem into multiple steps. The … Read more
Pretty Slow / Ugly Fast: How to Optimize your Code in 19 Different Ways
Pretty but Slow/Ugly but Fast In programming, just as in life, we are constantly making decisions about what problems we are willing to deal with. When architecting software, we accept trade-offs with each decision. Some of those choices prioritize beauty and ease of use, while others focus purely on performance. This is especially true in … Read more
Transak hit by data breach, 92K users exposed
Transak disclosed a data breach affecting over 92,000 users after a phishing attack compromised an employee’s laptop.
Poshmark reverses decision to lower selling fees after sellers experience a drop in sales
Shortly after the social marketplace Poshmark announced it would lower selling fees and increase fees for buyers, the company decided to revert to its original fee structure following outrage among sellers. In an email to sellers sent on Monday (and viewed by TechCrunch), founder and CEO Manish Chandra wrote an apology about the fee change, … Read more
Honeypot Finance Emerges As Leading Protocol On Berachain Testnet
Honeypot Finance, the creator of the first community-led Proof of Liquidity (PoL) Accelerator on Berachain, continues on its quest to become the leading protocol on bArtio testnet through its Fair Token Offering (FTO) launch model. Attracting more and more users through its anti-rug pull liquidity sourcing mechanism, the Honeypot Finance testnet has facilitated over 3000 … Read more
Refactoring 017 – Convert Attributes to Sets
Favor immutability by converting attributes to sets TL;DR: Using sets for attributes simplifies your code and makes state management easier Problems Addressed Mutability Complexity Attributes become polluted Setters Related Code Smells https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-vii-8dk31x0 https://hackernoon.com/how-to-find-the-stinky-parts-of-your-code-part-vi-cmj31om Steps Identify attributes representing states Replace the attributes with sets: one for each state Adjust methods to move items between sets instead … Read more
VanEck Adds Staking Rewards to Solana Investment Product in Europe
As VanEck’s Solana ETN begins offering investors passive income in the EU, the asset manager awaits input on an application in the U.S.
Cypherpunks Write Code: Peter Todd, Bitcoin Core, and Satoshi
As a group of activists fighting for online privacy, most cypherpunks go unnoticed by most people, and they often don’t become popular in mainstream media. That was also the case of Peter Todd, a prominent developer in the Bitcoin community but also a nebulous figure outside of it. At least until October 2024, when HBO … Read more
Interaction, Repetition and Trust: Are These Opt-out?
:::info Hi Hackers! Our friends at Āut Labz have put together these writing prompts to help you create a standout entry for Theme 2 of the #OptOut writing contest—Create Your Own Standard. Draft your entry with a single prompt or tackle mutiple, related prompts in one go. Read the announcement for the final stage of … Read more
News Corp sues Perplexity for ripping off WSJ and New York Post
Image: The Verge News Corp, the parent company of media outlets like The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post, is suing the AI search engine Perplexity for infringing copyrighted content. In a lawsuit filed on Monday, News Corp alleges Perplexity copies news articles, analyses, and opinions “on a massive scale.” Perplexity is an … Read more